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I’m a little frustrated at my laptop tonight. As you can tell from my little sketch here.

Jonah Goldberg has an excellent article on the tiff between Senator Byrd and Treasury Secretary O’Neill.

Sinfest is on target sometimes. God’s Fanboy finally learned what so many men have already known. (The lead-in to this strip starts here.)

It’s commonly regarded as “best practice” to not notify someone that they’re going to lose their job weeks or months before actually relieving them of their responsibilities and access. So, I guess it shouldn’t come as a suprise that some of those airport screeners who know they’re going to be out the door when the Feds take over airport security are getting some kicks in before they go.

I’m not sure I can put my revulsion into words. The incredibly bald, vile, hypocrisy of America using torture is just so overwhelming, I can’t marshall an argument. How can we rail against an “axis of evil” from one side of our mouths and then advocate torture out of the other?
On the other hand, Mr. Dershowitz is right that we certainly have allies that practice torture. Israel does and I believe France may (don’t know for sure). So now we’ve been hoisted on our own petard, I guess. It’s a complex question, and I’m not sure I have an answer. But I do agree with Robert Steele, a former CIA agent, that “torture is a cancer that does more damage to the interrogator and his cause than to the victim”.